Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark green print dress with white polka dots. Cloth slippers were on her feet, too, and her hair had been cropped close on top for the electrode's contact. The rabbi intoned the 15th Psalm: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?" Just before the chair, the prisoner shook hands, then impulsively brushed a kiss on the cheek of a matron accompanying her. She sat down with taut composure, wincing only slightly as the electrode was applied to her head. The mask fell. Three shocks coursed her body. The doctors still heard a faint heartbeat. They stood back...
...query, "Do you consider yourself a true American?" Wuchinich rose to his feet, glared at the committee, and proceeded to read an order and citation awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross for parachuting into Yugoslavia. When he had finished, there were some hisses from the audience. Wuchinich turned, shook his fist and shouted, "That's me, ladies and gentlemen, and you schoolchildren, too! Look good, that...
...smoke-filled room in Pittsburgh's Carlton House one night last week, two greying executives shook hands on a bargain. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steel Workers, and U.S. Steel's Vice President John Stephens agreed on a 9?-an-hour increase in wages and fringe benefits for 400,000 steelworkers, thus adding at least $100 million a year to the industry's $3.5 billion wage bill...
Despite the potentially explosive nature of the hearing, harmony and outspokenness won the day. When the questioning ended, even Senator Symington and Admiral Radford shook hands. A few hours later, the Armed Services Committee unanimously recommended that the Senate confirm all four new members of the J.C.S...
...know how they felt. They showered him with scrolls, letters, a gold watch and a plaque. Then, suddenly, the fun was over. "This is all very nice," said Monkey Wrench, "but all of you ought to be home studying for exams." With that, he led one last cheer and shook hands all around...